Caller 📞 Sessions! "My Parents Don't Approve Of My Poly Lifestyle—Help!" - Ep 381
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Callers are back in session! Today we're joined by Hannah who is juggling a lot in her personal life: a loving husband, 2 kids AND a loving girlfriend. But while things seem peachy, Hannah's parents—with whom she's extremely close—do NOT approve. How can she gain their acceptance of her poly lifestyle? Or how can she learn to accept their lack of acceptance? Listen on for the Shandy take!
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have, you don't have, you don't have, you don't have s with your girlfriend. |
| 0:03.1 | No. |
| 0:03.8 | Wait. |
| 0:09.1 | Goodbye. |
| 0:11.4 | Andy has left the room. |
| 0:15.0 | Dear Shandy. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello, Andy. How are you today? I'm good. You're doing good? Yeah, we're callers. I know. We got callers. We haven't done callers. From all over the world. Yeah. We have a very exciting caller today who is from another country on another continent. But we haven't done callers in a minute. We're excited. We haven't, yeah. Yes. Okay. So our caller today is calling from the Netherlands. |
| 0:40.2 | We're very excited. |
| 0:57.8 | Hannah, thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm so excited. Do you mind giving us your age, the ages of anyone in question here, and your story, please? Yeah, of course. I'm 33, so I'm in the Netherlands. My husband, who's in this story, is 34. |
| 1:06.7 | And my girlfriend is 28. So that gives it away a bit because I've been married for almost seven years. |
| 1:11.7 | And we have two kids. But since the year, I also have a girlfriend. |
| 1:17.1 | So I'm in two relationships, which still feels kind of weird. |
| 1:18.4 | I love the Netherlands. |
| 1:19.2 | I know, I need to. |
| 1:25.2 | We were just saying before we hit record, we want to move there. I mean, yes. |
| 1:26.4 | I mean, it was already so juicy. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay, let's hear what's going on. |
| 1:30.3 | It's not like it's normal here. |
| 1:31.9 | People are still looking weird when I tell them. |
| 1:35.5 | So, you know? |
| 1:36.1 | So, yeah, it took me a very long time to even be remotely okay with the idea of this |
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